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Thanks Dave. What a resource you are. Mine is a 20 gauge, and is so light that a round of skeet becomes uncomfortable. It also suffers from what I understand became a problem, at least on the 20 gauge. The bottom front of the receiver develops a crack going back to the loading port. Makes a dandy wet weather gun, however
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I have two Model 31LA "Standard" Grades. A 12-gauge with a 30-inch FULL solid rib barrel, probably one of the heaviest Model 31 barrels, which makes for a quite muzzle heavy gun. The other is a 20-gauge that was virtually new, but was fitted with a Cutts with only the Modified tube. I wasn't doing all that well with it at Skeet, so I patterned it. At 25 yards, Skeet distance, every pellet from Federal Skeet Loads were in a 19" circle. Paid as much on ebay for a set of 20-gauge Cutts tubes in the box with the wrench as I'd paid for the gun!! The Spreader tube improved my Skeet scores with it.
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11-05-2020, 07:44 PM | #25 | ||||||
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sounds like a good turkey gun to me...I have a model 12 Winchester with a cuts choke on it...I would like to have the other 3 chokes they made with it...I have never liked the looks of them or the poly chokes even though a poly choke was probably the best choke ever made.....charlie
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The Model 42 I mentioned above had two barrel & magazine assemblies when I got it, one 26-inch SKEET and the other 26-inch with a Cutts with the spreader tube. Much of my early skeet shooting was at the Vado del Rio Skeet Club on Camp Pendleton where they had a good supply of those WW-II vintage Winchester Model 12 Skeet Guns with Cutts Compensators. When I started, a card for ten rounds was $10, and that included their AA reloads. Could use your own guns or theirs. Pretty soon a ten-round card went up to $13.50. I'd much rather shoot a Cutts than be on a squad with someone else shooting one! I don't mind looking out the barrel at one at all.
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They're really loud.
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Double Autos |
11-11-2020, 02:13 PM | #29 | ||||||
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Double Autos
Since you guys brought up the subject of Double Autos, I went to the Browning Collectors Association meeting in August of 2017 at the corporate headquarters in Morgan, Utah. There was a fellow there that had the most complete set of Double Autos, I think, in existence. He owns over 60 of them and brought about 30 of the more celebrated versions, including the only two 20 gauges prototypes that were made. I'll include some pictures of those as well.
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20 Gauge Double Autos |
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20 Gauge Double Autos
The two guns on the front of this 3 gun rack are the 20 gauge prototypes. As you can see they were made 3" capable. Additionally, Val Browning was experimenting with a new choke system; something like a Cutts which you can see on the end of the barrels. These two guns resided in Val Browning's office until his death, at which time they were offered to an interested party and sold.
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